Jussie Smollett was found guilty last week after facing trial for staging a hate crime attack on himself.
Tina Lawson, the mother of superstar Beyonce Knowles, hopes that he is treated with the same leniency that Amy Copper, aka Central Park Karen, was given when he is sentenced.
Smollett, who is Black and gay, claimed that he was attacked in downtown Chicago in January 2019 by two white men who yelled racist and anti-gay slurs and put a noose around his neck. He also claimed they poured bleach on him.
“The article goes on to say both were wrong but Jussie faces possible prison time and Amy Cooper The woman who called the police and lied about the black man that was Bird watching in Central Park was trying to attack her,” Lawson writes. “Leading to the arrest of the man where in the history of black men In Custody could have led to his death !! Amy Cooper got off with public service . We will see the outcome of this for this Black man . Will he get the same compassion as Amy Cooper? I am not condoning what Mr Smollet was found guilty of . I am just asking will he get the same compassion and understanding of knowingly lying to police . Kyle Rittenhouse walked free after killing two people because the jury had compassion ?”
Cooper made national headlines in May 2020 when she came upon the birdwatcher Christian Cooper (not a relation) while walking her off-leash dog in Central Park.
Cooper asked her to put her dog on a leash and offered the pooch a dog treat, but instead, she called the police on him and claimed that she felt threatened and that he was being aggressive towards her.
“I’m taking a picture and calling the cops,” she is heard saying in the video. “I’m going to tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life.”
Fortunately, the birdwatcher recorded the incident and it went viral.
